The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-04-14
PARSON GOULD
Receives His Certificate
of Election.
Chas. Beck, Our Devil, Assumes the
Keie Of Special Reporter.

Last Friday night the Sentine
Office was full. The Sentinel Of
flee has been full before, but thi
was an extra occasion.
A Prussian from the SeconC
i ward by the name of Carl Buer-
: haus was stepping round, but it wa:
some time before / got onto the
fracas.
By and by Col. Seth Wcldy edg
ed his way up The the front anc
said, Mr.. Speaker, Ladies and gen
tlemeu of the con vention. As nc
person said word, i at last answered
the gentleman from Hooking:
WELDY'S SPEECH.
ut gives me great pleasure, my
fellow citizens 10 meet you on this
auspicious occasion. Not freis hit,
ed with the emo'uments of Office for
which 10 give thanks. my mission
is one of love. Nor will it he nec-
essary for me to enter upon any
lengthy or learned or tircsome or
yet briliiaEt trade upon the weak
nesses fa political opponent. but
rather 10 preface In fitting words,
the triumph of our townsman. Mr.
Chas. Mcginnis Gould.
| When at a time. our town was be-
ing over run by Vandals and Wis
goths and oven tho church was no
longer safe from sacrilesious hands,
when the tongues that would guide
our ministers, had lost their wis
dom and the mantle of fanaticism
was about to shut out Tho light of
common sense, it was then my
countrymen. that the people, genu-
inc lovers of Law and order, trot.
ted cut this Dutch Irish citizen from
his seclasion and made him their
candidate for councilman from the
Fourth ward. [Great Applause
lie went through like al April
shower. he went through like hur-
rirane, he went through like s cy-
clone and all Hades couldn't have
choked off q single Democratic
vote he got that day. Tremendous
applause, and north wall of James
block crum bling.
Just think of 1t. He never takes
a drink, he had Col. Rempel, a full
blooded Prussian on one shOu lder
and Lew Green, a flannel mouth
Irish man OIL the other shoulder
be bowed his back, he dug his toe
nails into the sod and scudded bo
fore the gale of disfavor like a run
away world. Renewed applause
and chimney tops all down.
Where is there a camel tina.
could have performed such q feat
Where is there Prohibitionlst. .un-
less his legs had been bracel up with |
Indian hemp or some other strong
s!imulant, that could have held a |
candle to him? Where is there q |
a Republican in Hooking county
whose spindle shanks could have
carried The Prusslan and saying |
nothing about the Irishman? He
tssn't been born yet.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of
the cony entien, it Is unnecessary |
for me to speak longer on this sub
ject. If Herr Gouil was a bad ciii-
zen and was backed by the whisky
element, there would have been no
triumph. but he was not. The Nc
ginnis Gould goes into The Council
rs the Law and Order man from the
4th ward, and On this OCCASION it
gives me great pleasure 10 present
him his certificate of election. 1t is
surmonnted bv the great seal of the
municipality that laughed at the
ct the Court it is bound
by green and red ribbon, colors that
bespeak the loyalty of the Irish
and Tho unshaken fidelity of the
Prussian. and which virtues being
centered in HIM, l know will con-
troll his actions, and lead him to
that higher plane, where, in the
strife for good government, the pet
y things that plague our social life
may be allowed to sink beneath the
The outburst of applause that
followed this speech was simply
awful and if l hadn't been the devil
[ could never have stood it. l u
hank God ! did though. for if l
lad died then Parson GouId's !
speech would have been lost to I
generations. We only had I
,wo candles and they were about t
,etvred out when the celebrated I
gentleman took the stand. The 7
Parson looked harassed. He roach /
ID back his hair, and his legs were I
Iwful shasey when he turned loose,
,ut he sotn braced up. {
oARsoN CHAs. MciINNIs GoULDs
SPEECH.
"GENTLEMEN 1t certainly at
ords me no little pleasure to meet
'ou on this occasion. take it as .
mark of high esteem that my GER
Ificate of election should be sur
by a golden sea. and
,ound by the co'ors of Prus- e
ia and Ireland. The words of the Il
gentleman who has just e
,receeded me. recall forcibly the e